After giving a talk at a high school, I was asked     1     (pay) a visit to a special student. An     2     (ill) had kept the boy home, but he had expressed an interest     3     meeting me. I was told it would mean a great deal to him, so I agreed.

The thirteen-year-old,     4     had muscular dystrophy（肌肉萎缩症）, wanted to meet me because I was a gold-medal power lifter, and I knew how to deal with difficulties.

I spent over an hour talking to him. Never once     5     he complain or ask, “Why me?” He spoke about going for his dreams.     6     (obvious), he knew what he was talking about. He didn’t mention his classmates had made fun of him because he was     7     (disable). He just talked about his hopes for the future. When we had finished     8     (talk), I pulled out     9     first gold medal I had won and put it around his neck. He looked at it for a moment, then     10     (take) it off and handed it back to me. He said, “Someday when I get to the Olympics and win my own medal, I will show it to you.”

Six-year-old Canadian schoolboy Ryan couldn’t believe that many people in     1     (develop) African countries couldn’t get enough clean water. So, Ryan decided     2    (earn) money to build a single well somewhere in Africa. He    3    (clean) windows and did gardening for his family and neighbours, reaching his first target of $70 soon. But he     4    (tell) that $70 wasn’t enough for a well. He started to ask for help from his classmates and neighbours and persuaded     5    (they) to donate money. At     6    same time, a friend of Ryan’s mother helped make his story go public. After several months, Ryan had raised $2,000, with     7     a well was built near a primary school in Uganda. The children at the school were grateful     8     him and invited him to visit. He     9    (real) had made a difference for these children. 

Later, Ryan set up a foundation to encourage more people to help. Many     10    (inspire) people gave him their support. Today, over 800,000 people in 16 countries across Africa have benefited from the life-changing gift of clean, safe water.

Olympic and Paralympic medals for the 32nd Tokyo Olympic Games were made     1     recycled mobile phones. The Japanese government asked for the donation of old phones to gather two tons of gold, silver and bronze for the 5000 medals. Olympic host cities had     2     (traditional) obtained the metal from mining firms. But Japan,     3     lacked its own mineral resources, took the theme of a sustainable (可持续的) future     4     (seriously) than others.

“A project     5     (allow) the people of Japan to take part in creating the medals is really good,” said Tokyo 2020 sports     6     (direct) Koji Murofushi. “There’s a limit on the resources of     7     (we) earth, so recycling these things will cause us     8     (think) about the environment.” Collection boxes were placed in local offices and telecoms stores and they remained there until the required metal     9     (collect). Members of Japan’s Olympic organizing committee put forward the idea to government officials and companies earlier and won supports from both sides.

As     10     result, the metals hanging around Olympic winners’ necks carried more connotations (内涵). All these memories, once stored in smart phones, would take the round shape of an Olympic medal.

Two days after eight e-sports games were officially announced to be included in the 19th Asian Games, China’s Edward Gaming (EDG) team,     1     is made up of 5 members (Meiko, Jiejie, Scout, Viper and Flandre),     2     (earn) its first League of Legends World Championship title with a 3-2 win over South Korea in a tough battle on November 7th, immediately     3     (draw) cheers from people around the country. So far the topic “EDG wins”     4     (view) more than 263 billion times on Sina Weibo, ranking the top trending topic.

With the       5     (popular) of digital technology, new forms of cultural       6     (exchange) have been appearing, of which e-sports are the most popular. Unlike texts and videos, e-sports go beyond the problems of language and       7     (be) understandable around the world. E sports mostly attract those       8     their early 20s, as shown by the carnival (狂欢) of college students. That in turn makes them     9     good bridge of communication between young Chinese people       10     their counterparts (对应的人) around the world.

Steel roses, the pride of China

Chinese Women’s Soccer team won the final of the AFC Women’s Asian Cup     1     a Sunday night. It was the 9th title 16 years later since the last championship in 2006, for     2     countless fans burst into tears behind the screens. “    3     (prepare) for the game, the whole team is adjusting physically and mentally.” the coach said before the game, though she admitted their     4    (opponent) had many excellent players who played flexibly. However,     5     matters most was their attitude,     6    (especial) how they face difficulties. Shui encouraged her team to have more     7    (confident) and be more brave despite being behind. The girls kept encouraging     8    (them) to attack. On almost all social media platforms were     9     (tear) remarks and excitement. Thrilled netizens     10    (comment) that the whole team was worthy of every praise.